Energy Performance of Buildings Register

Frontend for the Energy Performance of Buildings Register:

• https://find-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk
• https://getting-new-energy-certificate.service.gov.uk

Getting Started

Make sure you have the following installed:

• Ruby
  • Bundler to install dependencies found in Gemfile
• Node Package Manager (NPM)
• Git (optional)

Install

This short guide will use Git.

1. Clone the repository: $ git clone git@github.com:communitiesuk/epb-frontend.git
2. Change into the cloned repository: $ cd epb-frontend
3. Install the Node modules/packages: $ npm install
4. Install the Ruby gems: $ bundle install
5. Build the frontend assets: $ make frontend-build

Test

Prerequisites

You must add additional local hosts to your hosts file on your machine with:

127.0.0.1	getting-new-energy-certificate.epb-frontend
127.0.0.1	find-energy-certificate.epb-frontend
127.0.0.1	getting-new-energy-certificate.local.gov.uk
127.0.0.1	find-energy-certificate.local.gov.uk

You can add these to your hosts file automatically by running $ sudo make hosts. You can check what hosts you already have by typing $ cat /etc/hosts in the frontend directory.

Don't forget to ensure bundle and npm dependencies are up to date

Test suites

To run the respective test suites:

• All tests: $ make test
• User-journey tests: $ make journey

Usage

Environment configuration

The frontend needs to authenticate and connect to the API. The following environment variables should be set to specify the auth server and API server to use:

EPB_AUTH_CLIENT_ID=<client-id-that-exists-in-auth-server>
EPB_AUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=<secret-for-auth-server>
EPB_AUTH_SERVER=<url-of-auth-server>
EPB_API_URL=<url-of-epb-api>

Running the frontend

The test stubs server

1. To run the test stubs server (i.e. the frontend in isolation from the local API), change directory into the root of the cloned folder: $ cd epb-frontend
2. Start the web server(s) using the following command: $ make run or $ make run ARGS=config_test.ru
3. Open http://getting-new-energy-certificate.epb-frontend:9292 or http://find-energy-certificate.epb-frontend:9292 in your favourite browser to run the test stubs server.

The integrated server

1. To run the local frontend alongside your local API in Docker, make sure that the Docker images from the epb-dev-tools repo are running
2. Then access the frontend at http://getting-new-energy-certificate.epb-frontend or http://find-energy-certificate.epb-frontend (without the specified ports).

Docker image

Build

To rebuild the Docker image locally, run

docker build . --tag epb-frontend

Run

Docker Desktop

You can run the created image in Docker Desktop by going to Images and pressing Run in the Actions column. This will create a persistent deployment and has an interface to provide multiple useful options.

CLI

To run the docker image with CLI

docker run -p 80:80 -p 443:443 --name test-epb-frontend epb-frontend

If you want docker to communicate with a containerized instance of PostgreSQL, or another container in general, you will need to use a bridge network and connect any containers that need to communicate with each other to it

You can set up a bridge network using docker network create {network_name}

And then connect the containers to the network when going to run them e.g.

docker run -p 80:80 -p 443:443 --network {network_name} --name test-epb-frontend epb-frontend

Hosts file

When running the container, you may find that http://localhost and other frontend pages such as http://localhost/find-an-assessor/type-of-property all redirect and show the Page not found page

Add the following line to your hosts file (/etc/hosts for macOS and most linux distros): 127.0.0.1 getting-new-energy-certificate.epb-frontend find-energy-certificate.epb-frontend getting-new-energy-certificate.local.gov.uk find-energy-certificate.local.gov.uk epb-frontend epb-register-api epb-auth-server epb-feature-flag

You then should be able to access the locally deployed website via http://find-energy-certificate.epb-frontend/ and http://getting-new-energy-certificate.epb-frontend/